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Der Spiegel [in German], supported by Sky News [in English], report:
[translation mine]Ever since young people started earning money playing computer games, a discussion has arisen within Gamer circles: is E-sport, professional computer game playing, really sport? Is mouse-clicking and button pressing at high tempo easier, more challenging, or just as sophisticated as kicking a ball or swimming faster than others?
To put it plainly, whoever games professionally needs exactly as much training, passion, and talent as professionals in classical sports. And that good gamers compete in front of tens of thousands of spectators makes the world hardly better or worse than a football/soccer world championship or the Tour de France.
In any event Gamers may have to think about the issue more than they'd like. The E-Sports League (ESL), in which players of games like "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive," "Fifa," and "League of Legends" compete, has announced that they will be cooperating with the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). It is supposed to not only prevent doping, but institute concrete testing. ESL has announced that the Counter-Strike competition on August 22-23 in Cologne's Lanxess Arena that skin tests will be conducted.
Additional reporting here and here.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @06:15PM
"All requirements to wear a shirt in public in order to get service should should be illegal, this prohibition nonsense needs to end"
Clearly you don't live in a place with many other people around you...
(Score: 2) by tathra on Saturday July 25 2015, @07:01PM
nice strawman, but it has nothing to do with what i said.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:06PM
My point is this: you're confusing things that the government can't do to you (because you have no choice but to deal with the government) with things that private organizations can do to you. As a player, you can decide not to participate in leagues that do drug testing.
My argument was a parallel, not a strawman.
(Score: 2) by tathra on Saturday July 25 2015, @08:35PM
except drug possession/use is a crime and proof of it still constitutes a crime regardless of where the evidence comes from. as for the comment about not living in a population-dense area, prohibition is more harmful [aclu.org] to everyone, especially people that never had anything to do with drugs (loss of rights and civil liberties, police militarization, ever-increasing numbers of prisons, getting your dog/baby murdered at 5am from a no-knock warrant to the wrong house, etcetc), while not wearing a shirt isn't even close to a parallel. you might be in favor of having private businesses/industries work on behalf of the police in gathering evidence, but anyone who cares about freedom finds that idea disgusting.